After Richard Evans, English School, 19th Century

Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839) Bt. Vice Admiral of the Blue Three-quarter length, wearing Rear Admiral's uniform and the sash and star of the Order of Bath, a telescope in his left hand

Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy (1769-1839) Bt. Vice Admiral of the Blue
Three-quarter length, wearing Rear Admiral's uniform and the sash and star of the Order of Bath, a telescope in his left hand
oil on board
30.5 x 25.5cm

Provenance:
The Hardy family and thence by descent

A larger version of this portrait by Richard Evans was sold at Sotheby's, Trafalgar. Nelson & the Napoleonic Wars including the Matcham Collection, London, 5 October 2005, lot 180. A second version of that picture is in the Greenwich Hospital Collection.